{cambridge} cupcakes!

We’ve temporarily changed our header in preparation for the lunar new year — year of the tiger. We’ll be back to our normal urban/city self soon.

I love cupcakes. The frosting in my favorite part! There is this small place in Harvard Square called SWEET. They specialize in making cupcakes. They didn’t have as large as a selection as I had anticipated, but there was still a good variety. They also had these “frosting shots” which are basically a little tiny cup of frosting!

I really liked their pink color theme — it was quite girly. The cupcakes were pretty good, and the frosting was delicious. But it wasn’t the best. The best cupcakes I ever had were at Sprinkles in L.A.

SWEET! – in Harvard Square, MA

So cute!

“The Sweet Cake” cupcake — basic vanilla (left)
“Banana Cream” cupcake — vanilla with banana cream filling (right)

all kinds of outback meat

To celebrate a birthday on Sunday, we went to Outback Steakhouse. Everything there was all meat all the time … probably expected, since it’s a steakhouse! Even though meat is not really my favorite food by any means, it was good. So good I forgot to take pictures of our food until we were almost done. Oops! The super low lighting didn’t help either.

For some reason I had no idea Outback had to do with Australia, even though I know Australia has an Outback, so I was surprised to see all the Australia memorabilia there. Ha! I’m not sure what else to say … just think meat.

A meaty photo adventure:

all-in-one party

Superbowl XLIV Indianapolis Colts vs. New Orleans Saints was last night’s excuse for a little party with lots of friends.

There was tons of party food …

… and delicious hot dogs and brats.

But it turned into a graduation, farewell, birthday and Superbowl party. Complete with yummy cake made by Stephanie of nomnom…Cupcake!

Contragulations on your graduation Kendall!
Farewell, Caren, we’ll miss you!

Happy birthday Jacob and Jerad!

[inspiration] orange

Happy birthday to my favorite twins!

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One twin’s favorite color is orange. Why? I don’t know because I don’t really like orange that much. It’s fresher than red because it’s not as overused, yet the wrong shade easily looks just gross. As a mix of red and yellow, it’s often hard to find true orange. Things are always a little too red, a little too peachy or a little too yellow. I think orange is a hard color to understand. There’s not much orange in phx except for some spectacular desert sunsets.

orange

festival for the knights

Can you believe it? The Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival & Artisan Marketplace kicks off today! I’ve never been to a Renaissance Festival before — sounds like it’s a themed carnival that lasts eight weekends long and transforms rural country to hoppin’ place to be — and I’m hoping this year will be a first.

Tickets are expensive though. Regular tickets start at $19 and there are a few discounts out there, but if you’re going, you’re going to be dishing out some cash. At least parking is free and kids under 5 don’t need a ticket. So if you’re a single parent for the day and have three kids under 5, it’s probably the best deal in the world. Just printing your ticket online gets you a dollar off — anything is better than nothing.

What’s the Festival going to feature this year? Twelve stages of continous live entertainment, an outdoor circus, a medieval arts and crafts fair where you can see people working their trades like pottery, jousting tournaments and don’t forget the food! I hear they go through 60 tons of turkey legs each year — that’s insanity. There are also four couples getting married/renewing their vows this year at the fair and the royal king and queen who I guess just walk around waving at people.

Will I make it this year? We shall see.

Arizona Renaissance Festival & Artisan Marketplace 2010
Feb. 6 – March 28
10 a.m. – 6 p.m Saturdays and Sundays (also open Presidents Day)
12601 E. U.S. 60, somewhere southeast of Apache Junction

(Photos courtesy of Arizona Renaissance Festival)